Skirt-adjusting device.



M. F. HEATHCOGK.

SKIRT ADJUSTING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 26, .1911.

1,071,414. Patented Aug. 26, 1913. 1

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"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' MARIA F. I-IEATHGOCK, OF PRINCETON, ILLINOIS:

SKIRT-ADJUSTING DEVICE.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, MARIA F. HEATHcooK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Princeton, in the county of Bureau and State of Illinois,have invented new and useful Improvements in Skirt-Adjusting Devices, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to skirt adjusting devices, and has for an objectto provide means whereby the skirt can be conveniently and accuratelyraised so as to be held at any desired distance from the ground andthereby guard against the unnecessary injury to the skirt, incident tothe dragging of the same on the ground.

Another object of the invention is to provide means whereby all portionsof the skirt can be uniformly lifted.

In the drawing, forming a portion of this specification and in whichlike numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views:F igure 1 is a view illustrating the application of the invention. Fig.2 is a View looking at the inner side of a portion of the skirt showingthe application of the invention thereto. Fig. 3 is a section throughthe fastening device showing the application of the same to the liftingcords. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the device. Fig. 5 is aperspective view showing a slightly modified form of the invention.

My improved adjusting device may be used in connection with any wellknown form of skirt, the skirt A herein illustrated being provided withthe usual placket B and the draw-string C. At each side of the waistbandof the skirt is an eyelet D. The main lifting cords or tapes 1 extenddownwardly through the eyelets D and are disposed on the inner side ofthe skirt. These cords are provided at their lower ends with eyes 2which are fitted in the hooks 3 adjacent to the bottom of the skirt.Supplemental cords or tapes t are attached, at 5, to the main liftingcords 1, and as shown, these cords are also provided at their lower endswith eyes 5 which are engaged with hook members 6, as shown. These hookmembers are disposed in line with the hereinbefore described hookmembers so that the effective points of attachment of the main andsupplemental cords will be disposed in the same general plane. Eyemembers 7 are Specification of Letters Patent. Patented A g g fi 1913Application filed July 26, 1911.

Serial No. 640,538.

disposed above the hook members and are attached to the skirtimmediately on the line of the seams of the breadths of the skirt, itbeing understood, that the lifting cords of the skirt herein shown areequal the number of breadths in the skirt. By providing the skirt withthe upper eye members 7 and by arranging the said upper eye membersimmediately above the points of attachment of the lifting cords theskirt may be uniformly lifted when the central or main lifting cords aredrawn upwardly. The upper terminals of the main lifting cords areprovided with buttons and after the skirt has been lifted to the desiredextent the button ends of the cords are tied together at the front ofthe waist.

The main lifting cords 1 are provided with such attaching devices asthose shown at 8. The said attaching devices are of hollow formproviding a socket portion 9 the top peripheral edge of which is out atintervals to form at its outer walls substantially V-shaped slots 10,said slots terminating from the peripheral top edge portion to a pointadjacent the reduced extended neck portion 10. The said attachingdevices are each provided with a socket portion 9, the walls of whichhaving formed thereinsubstantially V-slots 10. The supplemental cordshave their upper ends knotted, at 11, and as shown, they are fitted inthe socket member and confined therein by bending the walls of thesocket member over on the knotted ends of the said supplemental cords,as shown at 12. In order to prevent longitudinal sliding of the socketmembers on the main lifting cord, the said cord is knotted,

at 13 and 141, one of said knots 13 engaging with the inner bottomportion of the member 9 while the other knotted portion 14 abuts againstthe free end and beneath the neck portion 10 to form stops. nation ofthe drawings, and particularly to Fig. 3 it will be seen that when theangle of the supplemental cords are changed the heads of said cordsarrange themselves in a position to accommodate the new angle of thesupplemental cords, so that there will be no angle formed between theends of the cords by the change of the direction of th supplementalcords.

In lieu of the socket members shown herein, supplemental cords may besecured to By close examithe main lifting cord by sewing the samethereto, as shown at 15 in Fig. 5 of the drawing.

I claim:

A skirt adjusting device comprising a main vertical cord, an upwardlyopening hollow semi-spherical body provided with an opening in itsbottom through which the cord passes, a cylindrical extension at thebottom of said body through which the cord passes, a knot formed in thecord and engaging the upper side of the bottom of the body,

another knot formed in the cord and engaging the lower end of theextension said knots securing the body agalnst movement lengthwise onthe cord, relatively spaced fingers rising vertically from the upperedge of the body to provide a plurality of cord engaging notches, andsupplemental cords knotted at their free ends and having said knotsdisposed in the semi-spherical body, and said cords leaving the bodythrough the said cord receiving notches, the said lingers being bentinward to retain the knots of the supplemental cords within the body.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARIA F. 1-1 It, NIHCCXTIL \Vitnesses HARRY M. M ANIS,

ALMER 1t. ANDERSON.

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